FOOTBALL fans last night slammed BBC Radio Wales for its patchy Wrexham FC coverage.

Lifelong fan Dave Evans complained Dragons' supporters living just six miles north of Wrexham cannot get match radio commentary.

Instead they must listen to Swansea City games via Radio Wales' North Wales transmitter, said the former Buckley CP School head.

Although BBC Radio Wales chiefs admit the coverage is not perfect, they insist it is better than ever.

And with advances in digital technology, they pledged it will improve further.

Mr Evans, 64, said Wrexham fans living in Flintshire, the North Wales coast and north west Wales, were being starved of decent Wrexham FC coverage.

"I pressed Nigel Walker, BBC Radio Wales' head of sport, on this matter, but only received a bland reply from an executive producer," he said..

"Apparently he states that due to technical difficulties, this situation cannot at present be resolved and will have to continue for the foreseeable future.

"I contended that this was totally unacceptable, pointing out that all Wrexham matches could be offered on 657MW, the North Wales MW frequency, allowing for simultaneous Radio Wales MW rolling sports service to continue on 882MW.

"After all, 95% of the population of Wales - all those listeners who are able to receive Radio Wales - get a good reception on this latter wavelength."

A BBC Wales spokesman said until this season the station could feature only one of the three Welsh clubs, Wrexham, Swansea and Cardiff.

"In order to improve things for the fans of all three soccer clubs, we have developed the technical capability to split frequencies on Radio Wales.

"The main advantage is that our listeners have more choice than ever before.

"We can split MW and FM, and can also now split FM into three, meaning we can offer Cardiff City on the South East split, Wrexham on the North East split and Swansea then in South West Wales. For technical reasons we can only offer the Wrexham FM split on the Wrexham transmitter.

"Of course, we would like to offer it on the north west transmitter as well because we realise there are more Wrexham than Swansea fans in that area.

"We are working towards that, but it isn't yet technically possible.

"However, it does mean that Wrexham commentary is now featured every week on Radio Wales, instead of intermittently under the previous arrangements."